When I was little, my dad made me a BIG Barbie house. The exterior was like an old English Renaissance house. The inside had 5 big rooms and an attic. It was on a table made from a flat old door and stacks of milk crates. I used to use the milk crates for a Barbie dungeon and when Barbie's maid was bad she got stripped, strung up and whipped with yarn. Barbie shibari rocks. Barbie had little brass bells to ring for the maids and the maid cooked like the Swedish Chef from The Muppets.
My sister got a rocking horse he made. She said she wanted one but immediately hated it because it had mean eyes. It did too. My dad made it. I have been trying to put it back together in the garage for a long time. The construction is like a "wood puzzle." Anyhow, she had about 5 doll houses to my one and that was not counting the ones we made from junk. She had a toy bug house, a little plastic and cardboard doll house, a cardboard and plastic Barbie house, an old metal dollhouse from our crazy old aunties, and a Barbie house my dad made her after mine because she was jealous of mine because I never stopped rubbing it in.
There are a lot of things you can make on a grill. You can wrap delicate veggie dogs and burgers in foil to grill them.
You can gill all kinds of vegs in foil packets like tomatoes, onions, nushrooms, and whatever you like grilled.
You can make bread in foil. South Africans make stew in special pots. You can make pulled pork.
Or, my dad makes these killer oregano potatoes in foil. You clean a potato, peel it, slice it in thin circles about 1/4 inch wide. Then, you put it in a foil packet with butter, onions, oregano, salt and pepper, and whatever other seasonings you think would be good. Use firm thick foil and the packets need to be openable with salad grabber tongs.
The other great recipe he used to make all the time was sauteed mushroom tops filled with butter. a drop of lemon juice, and lemon pepper. They were plain old mushrooms with the stumps removed. Sounds funky but they were GOOD. I don't remember the exact recipe but I remember a frying pan was used and each upside down mushroom cap got a chunk of butter and some seasoning.
No, but it would not matter if I did. I'm naturally nocturnal. And it's not cool and neat. It's embarassing and hard to live with. And sleeping pills do nothing. The only thing that works is ifI work days, and get up every day then I can sleep most nights, usually after 11 pm.
I have glasses. They are smallish and have tiny wire frames and still manage to make me look like a dork. They looked nice when I tried them on but now if I catch a glimpse of myself in a mirror wth the glasses on I think I'm looking at a nerd and then slowly realize the nerd is me. They DO something to my face that is not appealing.
That sounds GREAT. My friend from the south used to fry Bologna like it was bacon. Sounds weird but it tasted ok. And my weird friend Bee bee used to broil banana slices. Also sounds weird tastes good.
I ate cold pizza for lunch because I was working on a college report with 3 ladies. I think we did good, but that teacher always sort of grades people lower than they expect. We did a report on Kraft Foods. Yawn! Snore! It was interesting but who wants to learn everything about Kraft? They have a great charity called The Delicious Difference. That was the best thing about the report, finding out Kraft Foods does good works.
No. Women like to feel like equals but its always the mental cases who are at everyone's throat competing all the time. I had a friend like that. She was mentally deranged about competing. I thought maybe her mom used to compete with her because her mom was a hottie. So, I just felt sorry for her. We're still friends. Having her live several states away helps.
Whatever you do, avoid eating giant muffins every day. I used to eat Otis Spunkemeyer muffins and Sam's club muffins every morning and gained weight fast. Croissants are the same. All air and butter, so they're fattening but not filling.
Better to eat French bread, rye toast, egg sandwiches with thin layers of egg, or even dinner leftovers. I like vegetarian sausage and rye toast with oatmeal.
When I was in a ren faire I used to eat 2 Mc Donalds sandwiches every morning and hardly needed anything for lunch or dinner.
I have trouble stomaching food in the morning and eggs and cereal are two foods I can barely stand. Eggs make me sick and cereal gets digested in minutes flat and tastes like cardboard. So, all I really want in the morning is coffee and bread. At work, I used to put cookies in my cubicle or bring baked goods.
My grandma used to come over and the house would fill up with the smell of peppers and onions and fancy perfume. Those smells hold strong memories for me. Sounds like a good plan. I could never see my way clear to having kids, but I always thought I would do something other than hitting.
When I was a kid I wanted to be an Archaeologist, elf, racecar driver, and a barbarian. So far, I have an elf suit and some people think I'm a barbarian. Hee hee.
I don't have equipment to listen to distant radio stations but it sounds like a really really cool idea. Believe it or not the LaVeyan Church of Satan has a radio station on the net called "Radio Free Satan." That station is divided into a big bunch of substations that are mostly awesome. Yep, it's still there. I just checked. I haven't been there for a while. I used to love Oldies 104.3 and WABT. Both are now defunct. I also used to love Z Rock. It moved to Texas. I still love The Loop and Will Rock. I have seen a lot of stars play live. They're all 60s or Heavy Metal. You would love Beatle Fest. People stay awake in the hotel lobby and play songs all night. It's in Rosemont near where they have the big comic book fest. Parking is expensive and the cops are out patrolling nonstop so you can't just park illegally. Teri Hemmert of WXRT is the MC every time. WXRT is not my bag, baby, but she rules.
RE: Smurf names...
Smitchy Smurf.